Making the Switch: Consumer attitudes to the changing Financial Services scene

As the industry adapts to providing financial services in a digitally enabled world, Verdict Financial shall guide you through their findings from their Retail Banking Insights survey conducted with 17,000 consumers across 20 global markets.

-How important is it to be offering the latest digital services?
-Who are the consumers that are willing to use digital-only providers?
-Which markets see the greatest demand for fintech products and services

On the back of this ,we will assess the new kids on the block across Europe and discuss which propositions will likely see greatest uptake to help shape your own innovation strategies.

Is it too late for incumbent banks to try and still win at the Relationship game, wow the consumer with addictive experience and become beloved brands? If we believe only new players will be able to do the above and many banks will become pipes - do they have a back-up business plan in place for that alternative?

Attend this panel debate where the speakers will discuss all this and more:

- What will banking look like in a post-PSD2 Europe and once Open banking models start to emerge? When will that be?
- Is banking culture one of the inhibitors of change and what can we do to change that?
- Define what "Invisible Banking" means to you and the consumer
- What role will Platforms play in this new world over the next few years?

Banking is changing! The emergence of digital technologies and fintech are supporting changes in the way consumers use these products/services, particularly millennials.

These new style banking services are becoming much more than simply a way to look at one's bank account, or to pay. They are becoming truly financial cockpits and watchtowers that consumers can use for a wide range of usages whenever, wherever whether it is to manage better their finance, pay and order on mobile commerce, transfer money between them, etc.

We will discuss the way they are transforming personal finance, how consumers change their usage patterns, what are the impacts, how startups innovate, how incumbents and new players are interacting, where are the truly disruptive services, etc.

-How to understanding the unit economics of digital banking and why some VCs get things wrong
-Where the digital banking market is going
-Should legacy banks follow suit? Should they wait and see who will turn a profit/shut down?
-What are some of the mistakes that digital banks are making that makes VC's hesitant to invest?

FinTech is one of the biggest buzzwords these days, and unfortunately this means the market can get quite saturated with content.

How can you grow, nurture and continue to engage a community of professionals who are keen to learn, educate themselves, and stay updated on the latest trends and topics in FinTech and Financial Services?

David and Ina are Senior Content Strategy Managers for BrightTALK's FinTech and Financial Services communities which have over 400,000 members globally. Together, they organise online and offline events where leading experts debate and discuss topics ranging from innovation in payments, blockchain, mobile banking, and more.

Join this session where you will learn:
-What makes good FinTech content?
-How to keep your followers or subscribers engaged and coming back for more
-How to manage conversations where speakers might have opposing views
-How can incumbents create compelling content that helps them better compete with "cooler" challengers?
-How can speakers best position themselves to become credible thought leaders?
-What are the top trending keywords in FinTech that will help your marketing campaigns?
-How can you make the most out of a speaking opportunity?

In the sub-prime lending market, speed-to-close determines market share. Join us to learn how an end-to-end digital process with e-signatures transformed OneMain’s lending business – positioning the lender as the largest personal loan company in the U.S. Today,99% of OneMain’s loans are e-signed, enabling them to be closed and funded significantly faster than on paper.

In this 60-minute presentation, you’ll learn how the company took a phased approach and implemented e-signatures in the call center and online channels, then expanded to the branch network. This year, OneMain will complete its e-signature roll-out to 1,700 branches, where the majority of its loans are transacted.

Our speakers will share firsthand insights and advice on topics like:

· Top e-signature requirements, such as security, deployment, scalability
· Best practices for preparing a national roll-out – including working with regulators on a state-by-state basis
· Designing optimal workflows for remote vs. in-branch transactions
· Preparing the branch network for e-signature

On August 1, news of a bitcoin "hard fork" broke the cryptocurrency world. Traders were flung into uncertainty and many started wondering about the new Bitcoin Cash and what it means for the market.

Should you invest in Bitcoin Cash? Why fork Bitcoin rather than just using a pre-existing cryptocurrency? Will there be more drastic price changes in the different cryptocurrencies? Will the value of bitcoin be diluted? What comes next?

Join this session where an expert panel of bitcoin investors, engineers and entrepreneurs will discuss what you need to know about the bitcoin fork, the current situation of the market, the impacts of the hard fork, and their predictions for the future.

They will also take audience questions live so make sure to tune in and have your questions ready.

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In an increasingly digitalised world, the value of information grows ever higher. Winning organisations – whether in financial services or any other vertical sector – will be those who can harness the power of data analytics to develop microscopic levels of insight and foresight into customer behaviours and operational activities in order to make progressive improvements on a continuous basis. Product development informed by factual evidence rather than educated guesswork, or real-time risk management based on a hyper-accurate picture of exposures, bring significant internal and external benefits.

However, while banks want to get closer to their customers, is the feeling mutual? Data privacy is a very sensitive issue, and the perception of what constitutes intrusion will likely vary between individuals. Institutions, therefore, need to walk a fine line between what’s genuinely useful and what’s genuinely creepy.

During this webinar, a panel of respected subject matter experts will discuss and dissect the key issues related to the widespread use of data analytics in financial services, identifying the obstacles which need to be overcome and the enablers that will drive FS forward successfully.

Financial Services companies rely on personal data for both their retail and business customers. Legislation and regulation, such as AMLD4, PSD2 and GDPR; both control and mandate its use.

How can FS companies manage and use the data effectively? Join this panel where we'll discuss the many new regulations coming up and what you should be doing as early as now to prepare your organisation and optimise your processes.

Personal data is a highly valuable asset. The winners of the future will be the organisations that make privacy intrinsic to data innovation. Join this webinar to learn how emerging best practices and technological solutions are helping financial institutions tackle data privacy in analytics and ML and drive commercial benefit.

Privitar is a leading privacy engineering software company. Privitar enables organisations to use, share and derive insight data safely. Privitar creates opportunities by allowing broader use of valuable information assets for collaboration and sharing, whilst reducing the risk associated with storing, processing and using sensitive data due to data breaches, regulatory penalties and the misuse of data.

Big data, to date, has been focused on external drivers such as customer economics and market intelligence. To compete, market leaders must leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to aggressively ingest and respond to both external and internal data-centric insights. There is no exception. FSI must both innovate and transform to stay relevant.

Robert Mata, Director of Marketing, Finance, Dataminr & John Duncan, Principal, Meridian Research Group

Join BrightTALK and Startup Bootcamp NYC for a live broadcast of two sessions:

The Twitter White House: How Tweets are Changing the Political Information Paradigm

Learn how social data has become the tripwire for staying ahead of global market volatility in the era of President Trump. It’s clear that we’ve seen a major shift in the way news is flowing across the political landscape over the past few months. The question is, how are financial professionals positioned to ensure they are able to stay ahead of this new phenomenon? This shift in how news is breaking is making detecting and ultimately leveraging the valuable signals coming from Twitter more important than ever for the financial information industry.

Robert Mata, Director of Marketing, Finance, Dataminr

The Trump Effect - How will the Trump administration's policies impact the markets?

Join FISD for a blockbuster Learning & Libations event. John Duncan, policy expert, will discuss the public policy agenda under the new President and Congress, particularly as it impacts the issues investors should consider in various sectors including financial services/mortgages, health care, energy, industrials, as well as broader fiscal policy.

In the recent years, financial services have made a significant investment in the big data infrastructures but have yet to see adequate returns on applying analytics to them. Artificial intelligence and machine learning bring new capacities regarding data discovery and advanced anomaly detection while helping finance professionals create new efficient workflows around data discovery. The real value of AI is in uncovering new patterns and fully leveraging big-data. By applying fast, AI empowered analytics against data structures, the return on the value of IT investment is quickly realized.

Technological breakthroughs like Artificial Intelligence is having a disproportionate effect on financial services. It has the potential to introduce new sources of growth and is already changing how work is done. With its advanced self-learning algorithms, it is enhancing the professional judgment of finance professionals in finding “needle in a haystack” fraud attempts and material misstatements that otherwise would go unnoticed with antiquated approaches.

This webinar is intended to help you understand that Ai and autonomous systems are affecting major aspects of financial services. These technologies are well poised to give a never-before advantage to financial institutions.

Bio of the speaker:
Solon Angel is an enterprise innovator, visionary founder and Chief Strategy Officer of MindBridge Ai. His time in Silicon Valley shaped his business philosophy of watching trends and building product-centric companies that solve massive market problems. Solon’s 16 years of experience in high-tech firms ranging from ERP, CRM, venture capital to business analytics and deep knowledge of CAATs as the former product manager at audit analytics company, make him the perfect technology strategist to reshape how companies around the world detect misstatement, fraud and reduce organizational risk

Despite the growing popularity of data visualization tools across all industries, the finance sector still relies heavily on seeing data presented in tabular form. Analysts in financial institutions often spend a large part of their day pouring over spreadsheets, extracting numbers, pivoting tables, running macros and making adjustments before creating static reports to print for management meetings.
But what happens if you have another question?

We argue that there is a better way to approach financial data and to unlock more of the collective brain power of your analysts. We will show you a number of options for visualizing financial results, highlighting trends and developing KPI dashboards that provide real insights quickly. Because there are more valuable things your staff could be doing than wrangling with spreadsheets

As Financial Institutions adapt to the digital world, and the digital consumer, data and analytics are becoming increasingly important in their fight to provide customer support, offerings, accuracy and services and optimize their processes.

But the challenges of a bank or large financial institution can be very different to the average companies. From restrictive compliance, ever-changing regulations, huge branch networks, massive amounts of employees and mind-boggling amount of customers and financial data - any data and analytics task can be truly intimidating.

So how are modern financial institutions coping and adapting to the data oriented world, and what are the tools that are helping them?

Green data is clean data. Just like clean energy can power an industrial revolution, clean data can power a financial revolution but we have to start thinking green. This means standardizing how we report and access ALL business data. If we do, the result will be a transformed financial industry where every citizen can take part and capital can be allocated more efficiently.

So join Rachel Carpenter, Co-founder & CEO of Intrinio as she discusses the future of data in the financial world. Attend live and discover:
- What is Green Data?
- What goes on behind the scenes?
- Who is making data more efficient, and how?
- How can we use data differently?
- Why and how is data being democratized?
- How does the future of data look?
- How can you take advantage of Green Data?
- What can you do to stay ahead?

A smart portfolio can mean the difference between a comfortable life and a constant struggle. Most people make poor, emotionally based investment decisions with many biases. Even investing professionals who studied Modern Portfolio Theory did not help their clients in the Global Financial Crisis.

In fact, when I ask professional investment advisors if they would hire themselves if they had $100 million in the bank, they all say of course not. Most pundits, from celebrity investment gurus to leading academics, have simply been wrong about markets and their predictability.

We are entering a new era of machine trading, where the average person has no chance to systematically outperform the markets. Learn about post-modern portfolio theory with David Siegel and start building a smart portfolio today.

What is this Blockchain thing? What can you do with it? Where do you go from here? How do you get into the cryptocurrency investing boom?

David Siegel, Blockchain and Decentralization expert, is a web pioneer, author, and serial entrepreneur. He is the world’s first web designer, started one of the world’s first web-design agencies, has written five books about technology and business, and is now leading Twenty Thirty, an open community of blockchain innovators.

Tune in to this session where David will answer all of your Blockchain-related questions from the most basic to complex. This session includes what's happening in the cryptocurrency and token revolution, what to watch out for, and how to get in on it.

With Money 20/20 coming up this month, we've pulled together Denmark's top FinTech influencers to analyse the current FinTech space, what to expect from this year's event and what the trending topics will be.

They will welcome your questions but will also tackle:
-Why Copenhagen?
-Copenhagen FinTech -- past, present, future
The new regulatory vision and framework from the Danish FSA
-Why are hundreds of journalists looking to Money 20/20 Europe for the next big thing?
-Crystal ball gazing: what do we expect -- major announcements?

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